Jake Adams
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Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.

Grube’s Gorgonian is a fast-growing and hardy new soft coral from ORA

Grube’s Gorgonian is a species of Pacific Pinnigorgia which is very rare in the hobby but it’s about to get a whole lot more available as frags from ORA. Grube’s Gorgonian (pronounced Grooba’s) has a long history of aquarium culture…

Small Tigerpyge hybrid angelfish imported to Hong Kong by Red Heart King

This super cute Tigerpyge anelfish just surfaced in Hong Kong where it was imported by a marine fish outfit called Red Heart King. The striping on this individual is very broad at this small size but we expect that with…

Sprawling galleries of extremely rare fish and corals springs up on the new Russo’s Reef website

If you’ve been in the hobby a long time and you think you’ve seen it all, you ought to go take a look at the extensive amount of rare fish and coral photos that have been uploaded to the new…

Kuiter’s leopard wrasse, Macropharyngodon kuiteri, seen looking in the best of health

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mywTVAWkMgA[/youtube] Macropharyngodon kuiteri or Kuiter’s leopard wrasse is a seldom seen labrid which is closely related to the African Macropharyngodon vivienae. Although many of the rare fish we encounter are usually recent imports at wholesale or retail businesses,…

Ecotech Marine Radion XR30w LED now available and shipping to retailers

The Radion XR30w LED from Ecotech Marine was first unveiled a couple months ago and the wait is now over because Ecotech has started shipping their new flagship LED aquarium light to resellers. If you pre-ordered the Radion XR30w your…

SunBrite almost ready to realease dimmable Gen3 LED tubes

The Gen 3 LED tubes we first saw from SunBrite at ReefStock are almost ready for prime time, sporting fancy new Cree XP LEDs and matching secondary optics. If you are a fan of the directable SunBrite LED tubes and…

Three eyed fish caught near a nuclear power plant in Argentina

Three eyed fish are about as rare as one eyed-fish but since we’ve already born witness to the cyclops shark we may as well embrace this three-eyed wolf fish. This Tri-clops wolf fish was captured near the waters of a…

Vivid Aquariums is currently offering an incredible motherlode of diverse Acropora

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZjPArl5fE[/youtube] We’ve visited Vivid Aquariums many times before but we were absolutely floored by the incredible diversity of Acropora that Vivid is currently offering for sale. Now we’ve seen quite a few stores get loaded up on maricultured…

Slightly used monster RK2 300PE protein skimmer looking for a new home

Oculus Aquatics is looking to unload one beast of a skimmer at a great price.  They are currently in the process of re-engineering some of the coral systems out in the warehouse and are unloading an RK2-300-PE skimmer that is…

JBJ Unibody LED light is as solid as it is versatile and stylish

There are a ton of LED lights vying for your reef aquarium dollar right now but the JBJ Unibody LED light stands alone in its approach. We had the good fortune to be able to use one on out little…